[HTML][HTML] A long record of European windstorm losses and its comparison to standard climate indices

S Cusack - Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Traditional insurance has both a great exposure to decadal variations in European storm
activity and the ability to adjust its business strategy over these timescales. Hence, the …

[HTML][HTML] The importance and scientific value of long weather and climate records; examples of historical marine data efforts across the globe

J Luterbacher, R Allan, C Wilkinson, E Hawkins… - Climate, 2024 - mdpi.com
The rescue, digitization, quality control, preservation, and utilization of long and high quality
meteorological and climate records, particularly related to historical marine data, are crucial …

Digitizing weather observations from World War II US naval ship logbooks

P Teleti, E Hawkins, KR Wood - Geoscience Data Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The number and coverage of weather observations over the oceans were considerably
reduced during World War II (WW2) due to disruptions to normal trade routes. The …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of historical severe storms and storm tides in the German Bight with century reanalysis data

EMI Meyer, L Gaslikova - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2024 - nhess.copernicus.org
Century reanalysis models offer a possibility to investigate extreme events and gain further
insights into their impact through numerical experiments. This paper is a comprehensive …

Investigating the potential for students to contribute to climate data rescue: Introducing the Climate Data Rescue Africa project (CliDaR‐Africa)

S Noone, C D'Arcy, S Donegan… - Geoscience Data …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of available climate data in global digital archives consist of data only from the
1940s or 1950s onwards, and many of these series have gaps and/or are available for only …

[HTML][HTML] ESD Ideas: Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world

E Hawkins, GP Compo… - Earth System …, 2023 - esd.copernicus.org
A new reanalysis-based approach is proposed to examine how reconstructions of extreme
weather events differ in warmer or cooler counter-factual worlds. This approach offers a …

Digitizing observations from the 1861–1875 Met Office Daily Weather Reports using citizen scientist volunteers

PM Craig, E Hawkins - Geoscience Data Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the transcription and quality control processes for rescuing around 570,000 sub‐
daily and daily weather observations which were recorded in the UK Met Office Daily …

[HTML][HTML] Decadal variations of European windstorms: linking research to insurance applications

S Cusack - Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
The insurance sector is affected by decadal-scale variations in annual European windstorm
losses amounting to a few billion euros, yet has not applied recent advances in …

Investigation of historical severe storms and storm tides in the German Bight with century reanalysis data

EMI Meyer, L Gaslikova - EGUsphere, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Century reanalysis models offer a possibility to investigate extreme events and gain further
insights into their impact through numerical experiments. In this paper, we investigate …

Data Rescue for Historical Document Tables Using Semi-Supervised Learning

LG Singh, SE Middleton - 2024 - researchsquare.com
This study uses a novel semi-supervised learning framework to explore Tabular Structure
Recognition (TSR) for digitizing historical documents, specifically employing the …